All posts tagged "social problems family"

  • Global Stratification Assignment Guide

    Stratification is like a ladder.  We see lower rungs and higher rungs.  To get up the ladder one often climbs on the lower to get the higher.  Make sense?   In a nutshell, stratification is the tiers of...

    • Posted February 12, 2014
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  • Cultural Relativism Assignment Guide

    There’s a great teaching antidote that I’d like to share with you.  A Professor asked his students to define the Ignorance and Apathy.  One student replied with “I don’t know and I don’t care”.  The point?  We...

    • Posted January 29, 2014
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  • Gender, Work and the Economy

      According to the U.S. Census Bureau, full-time working women earn, on average, 75.5 cents for every one dollar earned by men. There are two sides to the “pay gap” debate. One side believes that the country...

    • Posted January 17, 2014
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  • Education Lecture

      Malcolm X tells the story of what he was told by one of his teachers: “I know that he probably meant well in what he happened to advise me that day. I doubt hat he meant...

    • Posted January 17, 2014
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  • Notes on The Parental System

    Transition to Parenthood Time is the major problem (Ralph LaRossa): sleep time, television time, communication time, sex time, and bathroom time) Mothers’ Role Primary caretaker Maternal duty – nurturing role Especially with young children More involvement throughout...

    • Posted January 17, 2014
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  • Social Stratification

      Do you think we can predict what social class a person is in by his or her appearance? The house he or she lives in?  What about if the person has a big screen television? Actually...

    • Posted January 17, 2014
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  • Family Violence Notes

      Social Stresses on Families Stressor events Hardships How we respond to them – social learning ABCX Model of Stress (Image courtesy of imagerymajestic/FreeDigitalPhotos.net) A (the event) interacts with B (the family’s crisis-meeting resources) which interacts with...

    • Posted January 16, 2014
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  • Deviance and Social Control

    Every year on Halloween night in a small town in Central California something happens. If you ask those who live in this town about their town they would say, “Nothing really exciting ever seems to happen in...

    • Posted January 16, 2014
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  • Marriage and Family Sociology Sample

      According to the text discuss the characteristics of the specifically indicated racial family as well as the effects of belonging to the specific racial group on the family. You may also discuss the differences within the...

    • Posted January 16, 2014
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  • McDonaldization
    McDonaldization of Society

    The process by which the principles of the fast food restaurant are coming to dominate more and more sectors of American society as well as the rest of the world. (Image courtesy of joephotostudio/FreeDigitalPhotos.net) McDonaldization is a...

    • Posted June 17, 2011
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